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London Olympics Restrict Volunteers Twitter and Facebook Use (Mashable)

Mashable – London 2012 Olympic volunteers have been banned from posting updates and photos to Twitter, Facebook and other social networks. The London Organizing Committee announced Friday that Games Makers, the 70,000 person volunteer squad, cannot post their roles, locations, or details about the athletes and other VIPs online. “We understand that many of our Games Makers will want to use social media to share their exciting experiences at London 2012 with their friends and family,” a spokesman told Reuters

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Google+ Posts Now Appear in Google Search Results (Mashable)

Mashable – Google has begun integrating Google+ into search results with public Google+ posts now appearing in Social Search. Whenever a user publicly shares a link on Google+, an annotation will show up under that link when it appears in a friend’s search results. For example, if I share a Mashable article about Google+ eliminating pseudonyms publicly on my Google+ page, users who have added me to their circles will see a note that I shared that link if they stumble upon it in Google Search.

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Starbucks Card Social Experiment Hacked by Entrepreneur (Mashable)

Mashable – Sam Odio, a serial entrepreneur who previously sold his photo startup Divvyshot to Facebook, has manipulated Jonathan Stark’s now-famous communal Starbucks Card to transfer $625 of the balance to his own Starbucks Card. In a blog post entitled, “How to use Jonathan’s card to buy yourself an iPad,” Odio describes the exploit and makes a case for himself as a modern day Robin Hood — taking the money donated by others for coffee purchases and donating it to charity instead.

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Starbucks Card Social Experiment Hacked by Entrepreneur
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5 Things the Skype Deal Teaches Us About Facebook (Mashable)

Mashable – At one point during Facebook’s “something awesome” event on Wednesday, more than 60,000 people were simultaneously tuned online to an unassuming meeting room at the company’s headquarters to watch Mark Zuckerberg and cohorts unveil a slew of new features for the social-networking site. While that might not be quite on the level of a Steve Jobs keynote, it’s impressive given the relative regularity of Facebook product launches and the lack of suspense surrounding the day’s announcements (we’ve known Skype video chat was coming for nearly a week).

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Justin Timberlake: Stealth Silicon Valley angel? (Reuters)

Reuters – As it turns out, Justin Timberlake’s role as Napster founder Sean Parker in “The Social Network” was a wink and nod to the celebrity’s little publicized role in driving Silicon Valley start-ups.

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How Bin Laden News Exploded on Twitter: A Visualization (Mashable)

Mashable – By now it’s common knowledge that the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death broke on Twitter.

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Amazon Server Troubles Take Down Reddit, Foursquare and HootSuite (Mashable)

Mashable – Some of Amazon’s AWS services, which together comprise the company’s cloud computing platform, are currently experiencing technical difficulties, and it’s very visible on the social web.

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